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VirtualBox 6.0 3D/OpenGL Performance With VMSVGA Adapter

12-19-2018, 12:30 PM

Phoronix: VirtualBox 6.0 3D/OpenGL Performance With VMSVGA Adapter

With yesterday's release of Oracle VM VirtualBox 6.0, one of the most pressing changes for Linux guests is the use of the new VMSVGA 3D graphics device emulation by default. VMSVGA is the SVGA II graphics adapter from virtualization competitor VMware, but allows for the mature SVGA Linux graphics driver stack to be used. Here are some benchmarks looking at the OpenGL performance on VirtualBox 6.0.

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Michael, Does VMSVGA expose Direct3D 10.x on Windows guests like VMware Player? Also now that Virtualbox is using VMware's vGPU tech, does Wayland guests now work like they do in VMware?

VirGL should be interesting as I believe that is what Google plans to use for their Crostini VM in ChromeOS.

I'm in favor of Intel's shared passthrough technology. It makes so the guest can use the native graphics driver and resources can be shared between the host and guest in time slices, without needing two graphics card.

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Michael, Does VMSVGA expose Direct3D 10.x on Windows guests like VMware Player? Also now that Virtualbox is using VMware's vGPU tech, does Wayland guests now work like they do in VMware?

VirGL should be interesting as I believe that is what Google plans to use for their Crostini VM in ChromeOS.

I'm in favor of Intel's shared passthrough technology. It makes so the guest can use the native graphics driver and resources can be shared between the host and guest in time slices, without needing two graphics card.